It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

The protostar is launching the longest outburst ever seen at 32 light-years long.

In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA's and ESA ...

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...

A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.